Dozens of family members of Israelis, detained in Gaza by the Palestinian resistance, stormed the finance committee meeting in Knesset Monday, demanding a deal to release them.
On Monday, dozens of family members of the detainees stormed into a gathering of the Knesset’s finance committee, holding up signs and yelling, “You won’t sit here while they are dying there!”
“These are our children!” they shouted. “We can’t continue with any other agenda, we need to discuss only one thing right now!”
Around 100 detainees were released under a week-long cease-fire deal in November in exchange for the release of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. Around 130 remain detained, but a number have since been confirmed dead. Hamas has said it will free more detainees only in exchange for an end to the war and the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners. Netanyahu has ruled out such an agreement.
Lapid calls on Netanyahu to set a date for an election
Opposition leader and Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid proposed on Monday meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to set a date for a new Israeli election.
“Let’s spare ‘Israel’ all the politicking,” Lapid said at a press conference ahead of his party’s weekly meeting at the Knesset on Monday afternoon. “Let’s sit together and fix an agreed-upon date for an election, agree on the rules, and agree on how to handle an election so it does not hurt the war effort,” the opposition leader said.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
